Yankees 5, Rays 7, Final - Sep. 4, 2008

J.P. Out At The Ballgame
seamheads.com 9/4/2008 — Rays and Yanks

Game 140: Yankees at Rays
yankees.lhblogs.com 9/4/2008 — YANKEES (75-64) Damon CF Jeter SS Abreu RF A. Rodriguez 3B Nady LF Giambi DH Ransom 1B Cano 2B I. Rodriguez C Rasner RHP RAYS (84-53) Iwamura 2B Upton CF Pena 1B Floyd DH Aybar 3B Hinske LF Navarro C Gross RF Bartlett SS Kazmir ...

Yanks rattle Rays in 9th, but can't secure sweep
sports.espn.go.com 9/5/2008 — Visit ESPN.com for the complete story.

YANKS FAIL TO SWEEP; WILD-CARD HOPES DIM
nypost.com 9/5/2008 — ST. PETERSBURG - Sweep or weep. The intelligent money is on pinstriped tears flowing like Niagara Falls shortly. After taking two of three from the Rays and winning three of four overall, the Yankees dropped a 7-5 decision to Tampa Bay last...

Tampa Bay 7, Yankees 5: Kazmir Demonstrates Exactly What Yankees Lack
nytimes.com 9/5/2008 — Scott Kazmir pitched confidently with his fastball, spotting it at the knees on the outside corner or firing it high in the zone, daring the Yankees to hit it. >

Kazmir Dominates, Yanks Fail to Sweep
slidingintohome.blogspot.com 9/5/2008 — Dreams of October baseball continue to slip away for the Yanks and us fans. Tonight they missed an opportunity to cut the Red Sox lead to 6.5 games as they failed to complete a sweep of the Rays in Tampa. Instead they sit 7.5 games out with just 22 to play....

Rasner flops as fading Yankees fail to sweep Rays
newsday.com 9/5/2008 — ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Joe Girardi, in what may have been his best quote of the season, explained the other day why he wasn't planning to replace struggling Sidney Ponson in the rotation.

Boxscore: NY Yankees vs. Tampa Bay - September 4, 2008 | yankees.com: News
newyork.yankees.mlb.com 9/5/2008 — WP : Rasner. IBB : Aybar (by Britton). Pitches-strikes : Rasner 43-25, Aceves, A 97-61, Britton 31-19, Kazmir 98-56, Miller 15-12, Bradford 12-10, Hammel 20-13, Wheeler 1-1. Groundouts-flyouts : Rasner 1-2, Aceves, A 2-9, Britton 0-4, Kazmir 6-5, ...

Yankees (75-64) @ Rays (84-53), 7:10pm **Game Chatter** — Replacement Level Yankees Weblog

AL East race: September 4, 2008 — BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog

Rays avoid an embarrassing sweep at home. — Tampa Bay Sports Blog

September 4th @ The Rays — WasWatching.com

Bronx Banter: The Big Yawn — Baseball Toaster

Rays Pummel Yanks — Depressed Fan

The New Baseball — This is BronxBloggers

Rays Put the Kibosh on Yanks Winning Ways — Green Pinstripes

Yankees' Abreu scratched with sore wrist (AP) — Yahoo! Sports - MLB News 9/4/2008
New York Yankees right fielder Bobby Abreu was removed from the starting lineup for Thursday night's game against Tampa Bay due to a sore left wrist. Abreu was hurt while sliding into second during a stolen base in the ninth inning of Wednesday's 8-4 ...

Kazmir protects Rays' turf vs. Yanks — Major League Baseball News 9/5/2008
Looking to avoid their first home sweep of the season, the Rays handed the ball to their ace on Thursday night. And Scott Kazmir delivered, holding the Yanks to one-hit over six innings -- to buoy Tampa Bay to a 7-5 victory over New York.

Rays end 2-game skid, beat Yankees 7-5 — Boston.com -- Baseball News 9/5/2008
Scott Kazmir allowed one hit in six scoreless innings, and Tampa Bay's bullpen weathered ninth-inning home runs by Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez to hang on for a 7-5 victory over the New York Yankees on Thursday night.

Rays push Yankees a little further back — L.A. Times - Baseball News 9/5/2008
Kazmir pitches one-hit ball for six innings, and Tampa Bay holds on for a 7-5 victory. > Scott Kazmir did his part to get the Tampa Bay Rays back on track ...

Kazmir pitches Rays to win over; Angels win, too — Boston.com -- Baseball News 9/5/2008
Alex Rodriguez and the New York Yankees are struggling to get back into the playoff race while the Los Angeles Angels are closing in on another postseason berth.

Yankees' playoff hopes suffer setback with loss to Rays — Boston.com -- Baseball News 9/5/2008
The Tampa Bay Rays held off the New York Yankees 7-5 on Thursday to avoid a three-game sweep and dent the Yankees' hopes of making the playoffs.

Yanks-Rays: New York's Feigning Sense of Urgency — Bleacher Report - MLB 9/5/2008
They're saying all the right things - "We're not out of it until they put an 'X' next to our names" or "We're playing every game like it's the seventh game of the World Series" - but the Yankees' actions tell a different story. On Thursday, New ...

Yankees Come Close, But Fall to Rays in Finale — Bleacher Report - MLB 9/5/2008
The New York Yankees lost to the Tampa Bay Rays on Thursday night by a score of 7-5, in the final game of a three game set. Darrell Rasner took the ball for the Yankees and was not good. He pitched a measly 1.1 innings, gave up five earned runs on ...